The original post: /r/television by /u/Nicklorion on 2025-11-20 11:29:52+00:00.
I finally finished season 4. It’s not the acting that irks me so much as the writing that saddens me. It’s painfully clear to me now that the writers never really wanted to tell a Witcher story.
What made The Witcher special in the books, and even in the better parts of the earlier seasons, was the moral ambiguity, the quiet monster-of-the-week stories that secretly dissected politics and human nature, and the way Geralt was often just a grunting bystander in other people’s tragedies.
Season 4 seems embarrassed by that. It pushes aside the grounded, dirty, monster-hunting world in favor of shiny courts, melodrama, and soap-opera politics that could’ve come from any random fantasy show. They’ve written a generic medieval drama and slapped The Witcher brand on top.
In the end, the world still has the same names and places, but the soul of it is gone, that hurts more than any bad performance ever could.